STAND ROOF CAVES IN
WORCESTER RACECOURSE SPECTATORS INJURED (10 n.m.) LONDON. Oct. 21. The roof of the totalisator building at the Worcester races collapsed under the weignt of 100 racegoers who. defying warnings, had clambered on to the top. Over 100 people fell into tho building and hundreds of others slipped to tho ground. f Minor casualties, including about a dozen tote girls on whom the people fell ns they were selling tickets in tho building, wore treated at the course hospital. Seven persons, four with fractures, wore admitted to the Worcester Infirmary. _
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21850, 22 October 1945, Page 6
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